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GAWM #45 – August 2010 August 2010 High Table At the feast of the alumni of St Heffer’s college, following the annual reunion this month, the loyal toast was proposed by Shots editor Mike Tombstone Stotter, seen here seated between the two halves of the married couple who write together, Michael Jacob and Daniella De Gregorio, otherwise known as The Michaels Gregorio. Adjacent are crime fiction translator Judith Forshaw and her husband Professor Barry, along with special guest, His Honour Martin Feldman, the distinguished United States district court judge, with whom I had a long and fruitful discussion on the statute of limitations on traffic violations in the state of Louisiana. Our official photographer also caught by accident Judge Feldman’s bodyguard (standing), who was known only as The Zyg and is believed to have been a former member of the elite Polish Special Forces, the Wojska Specjaine, who always look after Judge Feldman on his visits to Cambridge. Reunion The annual reunion of graduates of St Heffer’s is always a joyous occasion where crime writers mingle effortlessly with hundreds of their adoring readers and copies of the college’s annual report become collectors’ items. It is a chance to catch up with old friends, such as Baroness Cohen (who writes as Janet Neel) looking remarkably refreshed after hosting a positively Lucullan feast in the House of Lords to mark her recent birthday. And it was on Janet Neel’s recommendation that I sought out debut mystery writer Emily Winslow, an American who has wisely chosen to live in Cambridge. The Winslow Girl, as she will undoubtedly become known, even presented me with an American edition of her first novel (for legal reasons I had not seen the UK edition), The Whole World, which, fittingly is set in Cambridge. She even personalised it to me with a dedication “to Mike so he can’t sell it on eBay.” I am, however, not one to shirk a challenge and I do believe that bidding is still open.... I was also lucky enough to snap a picture of the rarely-photographed Alison Bruce and one of her many admirers, showing me the cover of her new book which, also for legal reasons, I have not yet read. Sadly, therefore, I can tell you little about her new book but I was given an excellent CD entitled The Siren, which may perhaps be connected, and which shows off the song-writing and guitar-pickling talents of Alison’s husband Jacen to great effect. As I am unable to pass comment on Alison’s novel The Siren as I haven’t read it (yes, I know, that doesn’t usually stop me), I can certainly recommend Jacen Bruce’s “14 tracks of fact and fiction” (one of which is titled “The Siren”). It is a joyous, guitar-twanging, foot-tapping celebration of the rockabilly style of popular music, as I believe the young people call it, absolutely crammed with cultural references, many of which were not lost on me: ‘Brando in One-Eyed Jacks’, ‘make my day’, a homage to Michael Curtiz’s film Casablanca, and ‘Dimple Whisky’. The CD packaging – they were called sleeve notes in my day – is a very professional production number and the eagle-eyed will spot some lovely mock-up pulp book covers and possibly, unless my failing eyesight betrays me, a picture of Alison Bruce, who can also be heard on backing vocals. The Siren CD is now available absolutely everywhere (including on Amazon or via www.jacenbruce.com ) and makes for ideal nice and easy – in the best possible sense of the word – listening. I highly recommend it, played loudly out in the garden on a sunny afternoon – especially if, for legal reasons, you don’t have a book to read. Popular Books in Middle Earth It is undeniable that New Zealand is a spectacularly beautiful country and I know from personal experience that it is a country where native crime writing is being taken more and more seriously. But what about the reading habits ‘down under’? Thanks to the Shots dedicated satellite which now orbits the Earth, I am able to zoom in and bring photographic proof that the average Kiwi cannot keep his nose out of a good book even when strolling along somewhere as picturesque as Mission Bay with its stunning view out towards Rangitoto Island. Whatever could he be reading so intently? Intrigued, I employed the latest spyware technology carried on the Shots satellite to produce a close-up of the book which gripped our beach-combing reader, who is clearly a man of taste and discernment. Toothsome I discover to my eternal shame that the genre I have always referred to as ‘vampire chick-lit’ turns out to be more properly called ‘Urban Fantasy’ (which rather begs the question as to what constitutes ‘Rural Fantasy’ – The Archers perhaps?). Between now and December, Gollancz alone will publish 16 titles in this genre and I know other publishers will be striving to equal or exceed that output. Among my favourites, which positively roll the tongue, are: Bitten & Smitten, Fanged & Fabulous, Lady and the Vamp, and the very seasonal December title Wolfsbane and Mistletoe. (Didn’t Sir Cliff Richards do a cover version?) You Heard It Here First It was well over a year ago that this column broke the exclusive news that there was to be a fourth ‘Jackson Brodie’ novel from multi-award winning writer Kate Atkinson, the Queen of Magic Realism – even though she dislikes that term and I am not sure I really understand it. However, I am positive that Started Early, Took My Dog, which is published by Doubleday later this month, will be just as intelligent, as exhilarating, as outrageously funny and as successful as her When Will There Be Good News? which was my pick of the year for 2008. Heard it here second, or maybe third I cannot claim to be the first with the news (I read it myself in the Southend Echo) that my old chum Martina Cole has gone into the music business. Martina, one of Britain’s biggest-selling crime writers (and quite possibly the biggest) has, it is reported, established Hostage Music and signed up the modern beat combo which goes under the misleading name of Alabama 3 – misleading because the band is from London, not Alabama, and there are more than three of them. Fans of family-based crime sagas will not be surprised at the synergy here, as one of the band’s legendary hits was the song Woke Up This Morning, which was used as the title theme to that marvellous show The Sopranos. Should Martina and Hostage Music be looking to develop raw and untried talent, I must put in a word for my son, Master Hendrix Ripster, and his own beat combo, Monterey, who are currently reduced to rehearsing in one of the cow sheds here at Ripster Hall with drastic impact on milk yields. My Blue Heaven The name of American mystery writer C.J. Box first entered my befuddled consciousness in about 2002 when Robert Hale began to publish his novels featuring Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden, in this country. Today he is a household name in the US and likely to become one over here now that the dynamic Corvus imprint is publishing his stand-alone thrillers, including the Edgar Award-winning Blue Heaven, which I have just read at a single sitting and declare to be utterly worthy of its Edgar and the many other awards it should win on this side of the Atlantic. The ‘Blue Heaven’ in question refers to an area of North Idaho now being populated by ‘incomers’ in the form of retired Los Angeles policemen (a similar set-up as in the movie Copland), where real estate prices are booming at the expense of the traditional ranch. Everybody has a gun (several in fact) and most know how to saddle a horse when the need comes to ride for help. If this sounds like a Western of the old school, then so be it, for it follows the best and most noblest of Western traditions with a lone hero – a grizzled, 63-year-old rancher whose ranch is going under – standing tall to protect two innocent kids from the bad guys. (In movie terms, Sterling Hayden or Robert Ryan would have been perfect.) The plot, though, involves a very modern crime and a murderous cover-up which ends in an all-guns-blazing shoot-out. C.J. Box deftly handles all the core elements of the thriller: plot, pace and suspense, and has characters you can believe in and care for (or be scared by) along with a lovingly described setting which is an unusual one for British readers who for the most part only associate ‘Idaho’ with ‘potato’. With Blue Heaven, C.J. Box has well and truly ridden into town and seems set to stay as a big player in the thriller stakes. Taking the Michel I was intrigued to receive a copy of a slim volume, The Baker Street Phantom the first ‘fantasy crime novel’ by Frenchman Fabrice Bourland, from that enterprising publisher Gallic Books. Set in 1932, a pair of oddball private eyes are called in to investigate mysterious supernatural happenings in a certain house in Baker Street (guess which one) by none other than the widow, Lady Arthur Conan Doyle.... According to author Bourland, he writes “a combination of detective and fantasy fiction...reviving a subgenre of crime fiction that was very popular in the past, that of detectives of the strange or the occult”.
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